Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Power; force; strength; vigor; use; value.
- noun Space; quantity; number: as, what feck of ground (how much land)? what feck o' folk (how many people)?
- noun The greatest part or number; the main part: as, the feck of a region.
- Brisk; vigorous.
- A variant of
fick . - noun An obsolete or dialectal variant of
fake .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Effect.
- noun Scot. & Prov. Eng. Efficacy; force; value.
- noun Scot. & Prov. Eng. Amount; quantity.
- noun the greater or larger part.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun effect, value, vigor
- verb Ireland, slang To
throw . - verb Ireland, slang To
steal . - verb Ireland, slang To
leave hastily. - verb euphemistic
Fuck (except literally).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mind you, Amazon still does not have an Australian branch: what the feck is up with that?
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Sometimes it's a bit hard to distinguish the "bone" weekends and Tuesdays from the good ones, and when you have occasional commitments knowing when the big efforts are really help everybody involved. where the feck is the feckin sarcasm icon?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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And where the feck is the Big Media to tell the voters about this growing Liberal-Ignatieff-Kinsella scandal?
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The Booker prize-winning Irish novelist John Banville also agreed that Gough "has a point, or more than one point", but added that "his notion that shouting the word 'feck' -
Irish Blogs The Punishment of Sloth 2010
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The Booker prize-winning Irish novelist John Banville also agreed that Gough "has a point, or more than one point", but added that "his notion that shouting the word 'feck' -
Irish Blogs 2010
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I have seen "feck" used to get around this problem and used to establish the awesome street cred of the author.
Presto, change-o Roger Sutton 2009
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To be honest I had not heard of "feck" until Father Ted came along at the end of the 90's.
Requiems for the Departed: Crime collection inspired by Irish myths looks like a hit Peter Rozovsky 2010
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The first is that his characters like to say "feck" a lot -- an Irish variation on our much beloved "f-word."
LAist 2010
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The English have never been granted the same indulgence in their use of profanities as the Celts, particularly the Irish, who have virtually been given a free pass for their own variant, "feck".
New Statesman 2009
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Oh, and did I happen to mention I interviewed Kiera Knightley the other day and taught her how to say "feck" and "shite"?
sonofgroucho commented on the word feck
What, you mean as in feckless?
January 28, 2007
seanahan commented on the word feck
From "effect"
January 28, 2007
dahnielson commented on the word feck
Has the meaning "to throw" or "to steal" in Irish English in addition to being an accepted expletive.
October 17, 2007
pomegranate commented on the word feck
what feckless people do not have
January 11, 2008
bilby commented on the word feck
(how much land)?
(parenthesis of conjecture)
(how many people)?
(feckity feck-feck)
(except literally)
August 8, 2012
Logophile77 commented on the word feck
adjective: spic and span; neat.
December 26, 2017